IT Manager's Journal: How Companies Can Evaluate Whether Open Source Will Work for Them

"A new open source evaluation model will be published this
summer that will finally shed some long-overdue harsh light on a
key business and development question: Can I use open source for
that?

"This new, hard-nosed evaluation tool, called the Open Source
Maturity Model, will provide technical and non-technical IT
managers a step-by-step, empirical way to 'score' the
enterprise-readiness of any open source project. With SourceForge
now boasting some 80,000 projects, OSMM may be coming at just the
right time to help open source advocates to cut through the
clutter, without putting their own reputations on the line..."